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To our Friends throughout the World,
As amazing as it seems, one of the world's best-loved Christmas carols may have been written because of ravenous mice! Right before Christmas, 1818, in a church in the small town of Oberndorf, Austria, the mice were so hungry they chewed a hole in the church organ's leather bellows.
To provide his parishioners with music on the holiest of nights, the priest jotted down the words for a Christmas song, and he asked the church organist to write a melody for two solo voices and a guitar. That evening Stille Nacht , known as The Song from Heaven, was born.
At the age of eleven, I was asked to play "Mary" and sing Silent Night acapella for my solo in the Christmas program at our church. I loved singing, and this was a very special honor that I remember every time I hear this song.
Make sure you turn on your speakers so you can hear the exquisite musical artistry of Dana Cunningham's Silent Night.
Reaching out ....
Mary Robinson Reynolds
Author & Founder of Heart Productions & Publishing
makeadifference.com/eGreetingCards
PS ... Click here to listen to all of the selections on Dana's Silent Night CD & MP3s.
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